Jerry Is at a Party

question 6

Multiple Choice

Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which of the following has Jerry experienced?

• A) a memory trace
• B) a failure of acquisition
• C) memory encoding
• D) motivated forgetting

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Definitions:

Ambiguity

The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; an unclear, uncertain, or imprecise condition or character.

String of Words

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Interpretations

The process of explaining or understanding the meaning of something, such as a text, situation, or set of data.

Complex Sentence

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